The Salon des Maires et des Collectivités The French Mayors’ and local governments exhibition
The French Mayors’ exhibition is a unique European event addressing local issues and territorial stakeholders. It gathers French, European and International representatives of local authorities, either elected officials, decisions makers and administration higher positions. It hence attracts the partners they cooperate with either institutions, associations and businesses. It is an annual time for a whole territorial ecosystem to meet, advance progress and accelerate action by showcasing projects and solutions.
9 exhibiting sectors with a large panel of activities and targeted offers lying through 3 exhibiting halls :
- Construction & Planning
- Transport & Mobility
- Environment & Living Conditions
- Security, Prévention & Protection
- Culture, Leisure & Events
- Energy & Climate
- Tech & Digital Transformation
- Health, Social issues, Children & Community
- Regional Development & Attractions
2 additional sectors converted into new exhibitions :
- Salon des Sports et Parasports “sur tous les terrains” – The Sports and Parasports exhibition “On all playgrounds”
- Salon de la Biodiversité et du Génie écologique – The Biodiversity and ecological engineering exhibition
The event enables this localities strategic ecosystem to meet, debate and decide for the future of their territories and their inhabitants while facing pressing ecological, economic and social challenges
Businesses and Community life organisations as both Solutions and Innovations Providers
More than 1,200 exhibiting companies and organisations from 9 sectors for local action launch their new solutions, develop new projects, and further relation and cooperation with local authorities.
Where local stakeholders meet on advancing their agenda (political and administration officials)
The Mayors’ Expo is a must-attend event for local authorities from all regions of France, and their European and International counterparts.
They all come to discuss about the realities, crisis, challenges they face and how they adapt to the future; they explore solutions to better the life of inhabitants and respond to their needs for daily dwelling, commuting, working ….; they anticipate evolutions for their ageing infrastructures facing climate change, resources scarcity and biodiversity loss.
Institutional network
French central governments and administrations, as well as European institutions exhibit at the expo supporting public policies, proposing programmes and territorial engineering plans and funding for implementing legislation and adjusting it to the diversity of territories, rural, urban, coastal, agricultural, industrial…
Over 50 partners support the event and represent the various skills and activities of a locality with experts and specialists on a wide range of public policy issues: finance and management, infrastructure and equipment engineering, culture, sports, social economy, local attractiveness, ecology engineering, renewable energy, sustainable building and habitat …
A rich programme and content in multiple themed areas
Presentations, discussions, debates and workshops are proposed in several areas organised and displayed within the sectors of the expo dealing with major issues:
- Energy Transition
- Ecology transition and Planning
- Responsible Digital Technologies
- Agriculture and Food Resilience
- Urban Planning and Habitat
- Risks Management and Resilience
- Climate Adaptation and Mitigation
- Solidarity and Inclusiveness
- Nature and Biodiversity
- Sports practices expansion
“Vis ta Ville” – our living towns areas within the expo
Our “Vis ta Ville” (literally “living town areas”) are areas staged as real local spaces of everyday local life. Each area offers an opportunity to meet experts with targeted solutions to better the management of a school, a public garden, a public library and cultural centre, an open market, a new third-place and several sports playgrounds.
Discover the Salon des Sports et Parasports
The Sports and Parasports exhibition
After a successful first edition, The Sports and Parasports Exhibition is pursuing its development to enhance sports practice, equipment, technology and social fundamental bonding role.
Following the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the event will hold the promess to follow-up the “Games Legacy” within the French sports community. It will bring together a wide ecosystem of sports stakeholders, from sports policy makers to sports federations, practitioners and equipment manufacturers. The expo on its second edition will wider its offer with an additional range of activities. This unique sports event already stands as a not to be missed framework with an enlarged audience. It successfully gathers the sports public authorities with private and community actors altogether engaged into cooperation and holding sports as a privileged bonding and vector of cohesion in society.
(NEW) Discover the Salon de la Biodiversité et du Génie écologique
The Biodiversity and ecological engineering exhibition
Nature remains the best ally human societies have in tackling climate change. Nature based solutions are an essential and privileged lever for adapting to a changing climate.
This new exhibition, held in conjunction with the French mayors’ and local governments exhibition, is organised in partnership with the AMF (French Mayors’ Association), Les Eco Maires (The “Green” Mayors’ association) and the Union Professionnelle du Génie écologique (The Professional Association of Ecological Engineering). Ecological Engineering stands as a key player providing scientific and technical expertise to all economic activities in order to repair, protect or restore life and nature capacities to damaged environments and habitats.
Meet our institutional partners
The Salon des Maires et des Collectivités Locales is organised by INFOPRO DIGITAL with the French Mayors’ Association (Association des Maires et des Présidents d’Intercommunalité de France) during the annual Mayors’ Congress being held at the same time.
